Radhika Jha is an Indian writer (born Delhi 1970) who studied anthropology at Amherst College and did her Master's in Political Science at the University of Chicago. She has worked for Hindustan Times and BusinessWorld, as well as the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of the children of victims of terrorism in different parts of India. Radhika lived in Tokyo for 6 years, thoroughly immersing herself in all aspects of Japanese culture. She then moved to Beijing followed by Athens with her Ambassador husband and two children. They now live in New York.

A regular contributor to anthologies, such as Delhi Noir (Akashic), Radhika's stories have been published in newspapers and magazines. The story SLEEPERS, part of her short story collection called The Elephant & The Maurti, appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.